178 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Coryphtt. 



Codda-pana. Rheed Mai. 3. t. 1-12. 



Talipat. Knox. hist, of Ceylon. 



Cing. Tala, or Talagas. 



Tam. Conda-paiii. 



This is an intermediate species, (with regard to size,) 

 between Ta/iera stud Elata. From ( e}lon it has been 

 introduced about nine years into the Botanic Garden at 

 Calcutta. The seedj ^^ere fully as large as those of Ta- 

 liera, consequently much larger than in Elata. This 

 alone is a sufficient mark in a tree of this nature to dis- 

 tinguish it from Elata ; infoitunately I did not exa- 

 mine the situation of the embryo, we must therefore take 

 it for granted that Gaertner was correct in placing it in the 

 base of the seeds ; our young trees, are only now, when 

 nine years old, beginning to exhibit the first appearance 

 of a trunk. 



In the same Garden are plants of Taliera, of the same 

 age ; their appearance at this period is so very different as 

 to announce their being distinct species. 



4. C. Utan. Lamarck. Encydop. 2. 1?1. 



Leaves semicircular, palmate^ pinnatifid, plaited ; seg- 

 ments from twenty -five to thirty pair ; petioles very long, 

 and much armed. 



Lontarus silvestris. Rumph. Amb. 1. 56 t. 11. 



A native of the Moluccas. One young tree of this 

 species is in the Botanic garden at Calcutta ; it was 

 brought from Amboyna ; though now about twelve years 

 old, it only begins to form the appearance of a trunk, 

 which, at present promises to be longer than in umbra- 

 culifera. The stipes or petioles are much longer than 

 in any of the other species, and the leaves expand liitie 

 more than half a circle, as in Rumph's figure, and have 

 only about half the number of segments the others have. 



